Whoa – In Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the Greek philosopher Plato says “The only wisdom is knowing that you know nothing,” to which they reply “That’s us, dude!” That’s how I feel about this Bible verse. Modern translations say “Many will fall away” but the KJV says “Many will be offended.” I don’t like to compare current events and news headlines with prophecy, but between everyone being offended, and the hatred and deception, It’s like Jesus was talking about social media in this verse.

If it’s almost a sport, it’s on ESPN8, the Ocho – I can only assume that ACL stands for American Cornhole League. The finals were on ESPN2 this week. So many professional sports teams and leagues have negotiated exclusive deals with streaming services and regional networks that ESPN struggles to fill all the time slots. Watching cornhole on television makes bowling and shooting pool look like real sports by comparison.

Listen y’all – I have lived in the South my entire life, coming up on 50 years. Y’all is plural, a contraction of “you all.” One person is not you all. But everyone in earshot is “all y’all.” Let’s say I walk into a room with a dozen people and two or three of my friends look like they are about to do something stupid. I might say “Y’all need to calm down.” But if the building was on fire you would run into the room and shout “All y’all need to get out of here!”

I don’t know what style guide the person on the rant was reading but this is what the Google AI summary pulled up when I asked the question. I’m going to cite Garden & Gun as authoritative on this matter. Y’all is plural, all y’all is all inclusive, and you guys is Yankee talk.

Gramm(er/ar) lesson – I don’t have a lot in the folder, I guess we’re doing vocabulary and grammar today. Speaking of grammar, when I typed that sentence the AutoCorrect changed grammar to Grammer. I didn’t think that was right but who am I to question technology? I changed the upper case G to lower case, and noticed the red squiggly line indicating incorrect spelling. I right-clicked for suggestions and was shown grammar. AutoCorrect changed my correct spelling to an incorrect one, then spell check suggested I fix it. Perfect.

He probably learned more than all the kids whose parents made volcanoes and solar system models for them.

We are finishing up Matthew’s Gospel. Instead of splitting chapters 26 and 27 in half because of their length, I’m posting the reading and the discussion as separate episodes. Matthew 28 is about the resurrection, it’s a short chapter that we will read and discuss Monday morning. Then we will jump back into the Old Testament and read Leviticus. I may have to change the ratings in the blog profile, not everything in Leviticus would be considered Rated G. Spotify has a toggle for each episode for “contains explicit content” or something to that effect. Maybe the Matthew recording bloopers will get tacked onto Happy Monday, either that or a stand-alone post Monday afternoon. The truth is, as I have gained experienced and refined the process of recording these, the bloopers are not as frequent or as funny as the used to be. I may quit sharing the flub reels because they are getting kind of lame.

Next Friday is the 4th of July but unless I’m missing some fingers I will be right here Saturday morning as far as I know. If you can’t be good, be careful.